Note that, if other articles are correct, the Covenant team also has only 8 players. Therefore, there's no difference between 'playing the 5 worst players for the majority of the game', and 'leaving in two of the starters for the majority of the game', right?
Let me check out the arithmetic.
By golly, you're right!
So, THAT explains why they had the full-court press and were shooting three point shots during the fourth quarter while they were leading by 70, 80 or 90 points. The worst players were never taught to shoot anything except three pointers and they never learned any defense except the full court press.
No matter how you slice it, it was an utter lack of class and sportsmanship.
Afterward, when the Coach publicly shot down the apology that his employer thought fit to make, it was an utter lack of brains.
Publicly and deliberately humiliating kids makes the guy a jerk.
Publicly and deliberately humiliating his employer makes him an idiot ..... an unemployed idiot.